Reviews by jeremy13586:

Pounder can that I picked up for a buck. No freshness date to be found.

Hazy golden color. Poured a big fluffy head that fell pretty fast, but it left a good amount of foam on top of the beer. No lacing.

Some sweet malt, belgian yeast, and some honey. Tiny bit of metal hiding in the back.

Pretty sweet backbone with a bit of a spicy bitterness and yeast. Pretty strong metallic taste was a bit off-putting, but enough spice came through where that wasn't all you tasted.

Creamy carbonation and a pretty clean finish.

Pretty decent brew, but the metallic taste was too damn heavy. They were in the "closeout" section of the bottle shop that had a lot of beers that were past their prime, which might lead me to believe that that is the cause of the heavy metallic taste. I'm very interested to try this brewery's other products.

S: I can smell the oddness of the toasted poppy seeds, a good oddness. Fruity and a bit phenolic as well.

T&M: Lots of crispness from this can, very smooth as well with a moderate sized body. Ripe fruit, hint of bubble gum and taffy, herbal tone with a hint of poppy. Solid malt foundation here with some breadiness, almost a cracker like graininess as well. Linger of ripe fruit and spice in the drying finish.

O: Complex, interesting ... easy words to use as that is what it is. the real question that matters. Is it good? Sure ... in a very complex interesting way. ;-) The brewers reached out on this one and it worked.

Smell: The wonderful smells of a belgian ale: white grape skin, apple, and pear. The hops are fruity and resinous with a touch of woodland forest in both taste and aroma.

Taste: Light pilsener malt with a honey sweetness. Woodland, herbal, floral, fruity, resinous hops in the middle. I am very impressed with the hop flavors in this beer. They are a blend of all the hop flavors (minus citrus) combined. Ends dry and sweet with some husk, chalky yeast, and higher alcohols. No notice of the poppy, but still delicious.

A medium-high level of tight, spritzy belgian-style carbonation. The can really holds it in. Medium body. Ends rather dry asking for more.

Nose is somewhat vinous, but has an unfortunate metallic tang that may well be a product of canning. Some faintly funky Belgian yeast.

Wow, the poppy is so present here. It sort of hits at the front with a 'thud', but balances out into something earthy. The lingering aftertaste is quite faint, but very pleasant poppy sweetness. Sweetness is of course not at all overbearing. Some crisp tart character (unfortunately metallic), and very faint spice alongside the poppy, but ultimately, it's another out-of-left-field hit for Uncommon. A bit of tart apple as well. The poppy taste fades as you continue to sip.

Mouthfeel is unfortunately foamy, possibly undercuts the poppy. But there's no such thing as can-conditioned beer, is there?

Overall another really neat beer. Unless you don't like poppy. Then avoid. Might benefit from aging, but not in a can.

The Belgian Pale Ale from Uncommon Brewers is decent. I am not a huge Belgian guy...but this is good. The beer pours a hazy yellow with thick white head that is leaving a nice lacing. The scent is acidic with that typical Belgian twang. The taste is sharp and definitely has Belgian yeast and sweet malt. The mouthfeel is lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it is decent.

Picked up a can at Abe's Cold Beer for $2.75 and the sticker on the bottom of the can says it was brewed on 3/9/11.

This was a bit of a disappointment, Ballantine's is a better pale ale than this. I might re-categorize it as a blond ale. The aroma has soapy hops and the flavor has an odd licorice note with green apple. The body is smooth and balanced, but there's not much to be positive about. The beer is largely inoffensive, but there's not much to be excited about. It almost comes off like a sweeter white wine.

Pours a crystal clear gold, with 1-2 fingers of thick looking bright-white colored head. This shrinks down to a thin foaminess that skims the surface, maintaining some rich edges, and dotting the sides of the glass with a good bit of spotty lace. The aroma is grassy feeling on the edges, which surround a fairly bold mix of spice and green ripe fruits. Sugary malt provides a sweet cushion underneath, helping prop the other flavors up a bit. Just a touch of light warmth starts to come out as this warms.

The taste has a LOT of spicy and ripe feeling sweetness to the profile, which mixes in with the breadiness of the grains and giving this a strong fruity tartness. This also has a prominent green and grassy bitterness that hangs in the backend of the profile, along with that tartness. There is also a gentle herbal texture to this that maybe appears to be the poppy flavor that is supposed to be present but I am unsure. The mouthfeel is medium bodied and chewier feeling up front, before spreading out into more of a crisp prickly carbonation prickles the mouth. Overall, this has some thickness to it that matches with the heft of the fruit and sweetness here. Alcohol is thankfully well hid.

This certainly wasn’t a bad beer and I found the flavors to be quite interesting at times, it’s just that the overall thickness of the feel and flavors were a far cry from the “crisp and light” descriptor that their website uses to convey what this beer is about. The depth of flavor and heft of the body made this more conducive to sipping than treating this as a refreshing quaff. I’m still glad I gave it try though. It was interesting.

Another canned beer courtesy of woodychandler. Poured from a 16 oz. can. Has a cloudy deep golden color, the head is very small. Smell has some malts and hops, a bit of spiceness. Taste is well balanced malt and hop, a bit of a tangy aftertaste. Feels full bodied in the mouth and overall is a pretty good beer.

A: The ale is golden, bright in my glass. Crystal clear too, a real beauty. The first pour generated a huge head, over 3 fingers that required decisive action on my part. A few patches of lace were left behind although not as much as I'd expect.

S: The nose is very sweet and yeasty. Pale biscuits, soft hops, flowers and light fruits. Very interesting aromas, far sweeter than I was expecting. And I'm not sure what to expect from the poppy seed addition.

T: Very sweet, spicy and bubbly. Flowers, both spicy and hoppy, come through over the pale biscuity base. A leafy flavor runs through the ale, masked by the sweetness but evident. The poppy flavors, I'm guessing are the grainy finishing aspect. An interesting ale that goes down very easily. Even with the graininess I like it.

M: Despite the ample carbonation, the ale doesn't have much bubblyness to it, rather subdued in that category.

Smells like peanut butter and sunflower seeds, must be the toasted poppyseed. Unique, but nothing too extraordinary. Poppyseed ale, they nailed it.

Flavors are malt forward, slighty sweet with impressions of sunflower and poppyseed. Clean and lightly toasty, sweet, ale yeast notes. Simple but effective. Medium bodied, clean fruity finish, somewhat dry. It has a unique flavor from the poppyseed, but little in the way of hops or other distinguishing characteristics.

Poured into a Gulden Draak tulip. Pours a hazy caramel amber with a one finger white head that dissipates to a film and thick ring around the glass. Aroma of caramel malt, Belgian yeast that is reminiscent of saison yeast, light fruit. Flavor follows with sweet caramel malt, light apple and stone fruit, nice Belgian yeast, a hint of Belgian spicing, slightly vinous. Light bodied, but pleasant mouth feel from active carbonation. A pleasant, somewhat sweet take on a Belgian pale. The poppy seed component is not obvious, but may add to the slightly floral fruit flavors. I enjoyed this as interesting change of pace.

m: carbonation just over moderate, somewhat lively, with a body raging light but not thin

t: slightly sweet pale malts on the palate, estery banana and delicate yeast spice, some earthy notes suggest the toasted poppy seed - but again it's not really something I can pick out, starts to dry out about halfway through, towards mild grassy hop flavors with some lemon pith, lightly bitter with a clean finish and lingering notes of pale grain, I like the transition from start to finish but it seems to happen rather abruptly - not really a balance thing, hard to explain

o: for some reason had a little prejudice going in to this one, but it was surprisingly good, not gonna judge it by strict belgian golden standards as I don't think it was intended to be - a tasty, drinkable beer with some interesting things going on

A: The beer is relatively clear yellow in color and has a very high amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a finger and a half white head that took a long time to start dying down and left lots of bubbles on the sides of the glass.
S: It smells a little like a Riesling wine and has aromas of white grapes as well as hints of yeast. Hints of the poppy seeds become noticeable as the beer warms up.
T: The taste is similar to the smell and also has a light amount of sweetness, although this isn't cloying due to its bubbly nature. No flavors of spices are apparent. Flavors of green apples begin appearing after the beer warms up.
M: It feels light-bodied on the palate and has an extremely high amount of carbonation.
O: Like its name, this beer is uncommon but I found its uniqueness to be in its simarities to a Riesling wine in the smell and taste and a champagne from its highly carbonated nature.

500 ml can. Bought at wine works in Marlton, New Jersey. Crisp clean and well balanced. Nice replication of a trappist style. Slight poppy seed nose and taste. Straw color with a creamy head. Definitely would recommend. Look forward to other offerings.

A - Man do I hate the carbonation on this I get over two inches of rocky head that overflows the glass. Color is a bright yellow with a touch of orange.

S - Smells of a nice Belgium golden ale. Fruity yeasts, mild hops, and a touch of lemon. Not getting much poppy seed but it must be in there.

T - At first I really didn't like this. Cold the Poppy seeds gave it a bitter abrasive kind of medicinal taste but as it warmed it became a great beer with fruity yeasts, mild lemon and a good hoppy finish. Not bad.

M - Medium bodied yet the ABV is well concealed.

Overall I picked this one up at the House of 1,000 beers for a dollar and got well over the value of the beer. Not something I would pick up again but worth a try.